Our university motto “science with practice” captures the central theme of the institute—promoting the application and translation of intervention science into community practices to improve people's health and well-being.

Our Vision:
We envision prevention science that promotes capable and healthy youth, adults,families, and communities, contributing to legacies of well-being across generations.Central to this vision is the land grant university ideal of science with practice,fostered by a culture of collaboration and public health innovation. We are realizingthis vision through a network of partnerships with communities and schools that aimsto advance the science and practice of positive human development.

*To expand the evidence base on the effectiveness of prevention, positive youth development, and health promotion interventions for youth, adults, families and communities. This includes examination of

*We are developing a partnership network to support community participatory research. This network links public education systems—the national Cooperative Extension and public school systems—and other community-based groups and institutions.

*Our partnership network approach is intended to achieve large-scale public health benefits, through broader use of a community-school-university partnership model.

*The partnership network will:

Deliver evidence-based interventions that promote public health and well-being on a large scale

Evaluate the public health impact of evidence-based interventions

Foster development and evaluation of promising interventions

*The targeted public health and well-being outcomes for the partnership network fall under two general categories: